[CALA Ultra-Intense Seminar] EPAC - A New, Advanced Facility for Applications of Laser-driven Accelerators

durch Dr. Dan Symes (STFC, RAL, CLF)

Freitag 15.01.2021, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Berlin

This talk was originally supposed to be held by Prof. David Neely who passed away before his time. May he Rest In Peace.

https://www.clf.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Rest-in-Peace-Prof-Dave-Neely.aspx

The Gemini facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK has been one of the major centres of Laser-driven wakefield acceleration for the past decade where several important works in the field have been performed.  In particular, Gemini helped demonstrate the niche capabilities of laser-driven photon and particle beams in both fundamental science as well as applications, enabled by its unique two-beam capability. The proof-of-principle industrial and biomedical applications demonstrated in Gemini will be exploited by the new facility under construction – the Extreme Photonics Application Centre (EPAC), which will drive plasma accelerators at 10Hz and possibly beyond. In this talk I will go through some of the recent highlights from Gemini as well as the design philosophy of EPAC. 

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